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Blockchain Bites: CBDCs on Capitol Hill, Custody Battles and Smart Drugs
Lawmakers will convene today to discuss the possibility of using digital dollars to distribute coronavirus relief, while Filecoin releases its new testnet.
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Blockchain Bites: Libra's Future, Elrond's 'Trial by Fire' and LocalBitcoins' Volume
An unknown wallet set a $2.6 million ETH transaction fee and Hacker Noon announced it will test out Web 3.0 micropayments.
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Blockchain Bites: 'Bitcoin Billionaires' and Buying a Coke With Crypto
Is mass adoption back on the agenda with the announcement of a feature film based on the Winklevoss twins and new crypto payment option for vending machines "down under?"
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Blockchain Bites: Coinbase Surveillance, Bitcoin Wargames, CoinMarketCap Drama
The U.S. military conducted a war game involving bitcoin while Chinese police may have potentially frozen accounts linked to illicit transactions.
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Blockchain Bites: Why UN and Federal Reserve Experts Think CBDCs Could Kill Commercial Banking
U.N. and Federal Reserve experts think CBDCs can compete with commercial banks, New York and France enter a regulatory agreement while Europol has Wasabi Wallet concerns.
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Blockchain Bites: Bitmain's Shakeup, Bitcoin's Resilience and Ethereum's Anonymity
Bitmain's ousted co-founder reportedly retook the company's office building while a protocol update made Bitcoin more resilient to state attacks.
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Blockchain Bites: Avanti's Angel Round, Civil's Closure and a Data Breach
Ethereum Classic hardforked to become more compatible with Ethereum while a French energy firm is cleared to issue a new ICO.
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Blockchain Bites: Poolin Lending, Square Crypto's Grant and a Senate Candidate Who Holds Bitcoin
Square Crypto supports Bitcoin's lightning network development, crypto mining pool Poolin expands lending and ICE is going after the petro dollar's creator.
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Blockchain Bites: Chase Class Action, 30 Words for Censorship and a Bitcoin Bug
Chase Bank settled a class action brought by crypto purchasers while a new report shows a flaw in time-locked bitcoin transactions.
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Blockchain Bites: Magic's Raise, Compound's Distribution and Trump's Twitter War
In the war between Trump and Twitter, decentralized systems may win.
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